3 months contract with a local authority

Job Purpose

The role holder is responsible for development and maintenance of Education Health and Care Plans from initial application and assessment to the annual review process. The SEND case worker will work with families of children with Special Needs and Disability in a highly person-centred relational approach, and coordinate service provision across education, health and care to ensure holistic delivery plan for individual child and family.

Key Duties/Accountabilities

Work collaboratively with families, schools, and other key partner agencies for individual children and young people with SEND to ensure children and young people are educated and are in receipt of appropriate provision that is inline with their holistic needs.
Work closely with and facilitate engagement with educational settings and relevant practitioners to support, advise, and monitor the local offer and to work with schools on individual cases as needed.
Ensure high-quality plan production and a positive experience for families, carers, children, and young people.
Take a reflective approach to practice to drive improvement and use data and feedback to drive quality improvements.
Work with a team around the child approach as part of a graduated response and continuum of need.
Ensure timeliness of planning, quality of assessments and plans, and impact of annual reviews as important measures of success.

Essential Experience Required

Significant experience of working with vulnerable children/young people, especially those with SEND.
Demonstrable experience of working in a collaborative way with children/young people and parents to ensure families' views are heard and applied.
Ability to take ownership for writing and maintaining the EHC, and to present to partnership resource allocation forum as and when required.

Essential Qualification Required

Educated to A level minimum / equivalent training / experience of SEN knowledge and experience, namely Code of Practice and Children and Families Act 14.

Additional information to note

The closing date for this position is 4th July 2025.

Requirements

Significant experience of working with vulnerable children/young people, especially those with SEND.
Demonstrable experience of working in a collaborative way with children/young people and parents to ensure families' views are heard and applied.
Ability to take ownership for writing and maintaining the EHC, and to present to partnership resource allocation forum as and when required.
Educated to A level minimum / equivalent training / experience of SEN knowledge and experience, namely Code of

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